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Dried tomato is popular due to its valuable nutritious and dietary qualities. Dried tomato contains sugars, pectines, organic acids, nitrous substances, alkaloids, minerals and vitamins (carotene- pro vitamin A -0.6 mg%, C - 23 mg%, B -0.08 mg %, B2 - 0.08 mg %). Dried tomato is used for prevention and treatment of polyavitaminosis, also gives good results in curing stomach ulcers. It can be used for septic wounds and is helpful in liver ailments, as intrahepatic(liver) calculus dissolver. It is also believed that dried tomatoes increase the activity of sexual glands. Dried tomato is used in medicinal purposes, for it improves gastrointestinal activity and has wound healing effects and boosts metabolism.
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